Jaime Grutzendler, MD

Physician Biography

Dr. Grutzendler obtained his MD at Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia where he was born and raised. He completed a medical internship in Internal Medicine and a residency in Neurology at Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. This was followed by a combined clinical and research fellowship in the Alzheimer Disease Research Center and the Department of Neurobiology at Washington University and further neurobiology research training at the Skirball Institute of New York University. He has been a member of the Neurology faculty at Yale University since 2011. Dr. Grutzendler's clinical interests focus on neurodegenerative disorders with special emphasis in dementias such as Alzheimer's disease. Hi leads a research laboratory that studies normal brain function as well as mechanisms and potential treatments for stroke, vascular and Alzheimer's dementias.

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